This round of Eurobarometer surveys diverged from the
Standard Eurobarometer measures and queried respondents on the
following major areas of focus: (1) social reality, (2)
e-communications, (3) Common Agricultural Policy, (4) discrimination
and the media, and (5) medical research. For the first area of focus,
a sequence of questions covered a broad spectrum in terms of social
reality, asking the respondents to evaluate their life and job
satisfaction, work environment, confidence in their job skills,
ability to keep or find a job, and what they expected would happen to
their jobs in the near future, e.g., promotion, job loss, relocation,
and pensions. Respondents were then asked their opinions on the
effectiveness of social welfare, which social issues they considered
most important, whether they had or wanted children, how the presence
of minority groups affect their countries in a cultural and economic
sense, and what necessities are required in order to get ahead in
life. The second major focus called for respondents to provide
information on the availability, or lack there of, of each of these
communication systems: television, fixed telephone, mobile phones, and
Internet in their household. Respondents were asked to share reasons
why they owned or did not own certain systems, including
telecommunication bundles, and to explain how accessible the systems
were to their household. Respondents also were asked to assess the
performance of each system, to share their expectations as consumers,
and to rate the effectiveness of their service providers and the
available features (e.g., personal data protection, costs, tariffs,
and flexibility with account changes). Respondents indicated, from
lists of service providers included in the survey, the specific
provider they used for each communication system they used.
Respondents answered additional questions about viruses and spam,
and how they dealt with such issues, as well as their knowledge of the
phone numbers to contact in case of emergencies. Only one question was
asked in the next topic as respondents were shown a European label and
asked what it symbolized. For the third major area of focus, the survey
asked respondents about their knowledge of and their interest in
learning about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Respondents also
were asked their opinions on the importance of agriculture and rural
development in their countries, what the European Union's (EU) main
priorities should be in terms of CAP, and the effectiveness of its
role in policy development. Respondents were further asked if the EU's
reduction of the subsidy for farmers was justified if farmers failed
to attend to their responsibilities and rules of policy, and whether
the current amount of budgeting for agriculture was adequate. The fourth
major topic focused on people's opinions about discrimination and the
media. Respondents were requested to assess the importance of the
media's role in combating discrimination and the particular actions
the media may use to do this. The survey further asked respondents how
they felt about viewing people of different ethnic origins on
television, and the media's use of ethnic origin or religious
affiliation when discussing people. Also, respondents shared whether
they believed the media contributed to the creation of ethnic tensions
between different communities. For the fifth and final topic, the survey queried
respondents about their knowledge of and interest in scientific
research, their access to information on science and subjects of
interest (e.g., exhibitions, lectures, professors, doctors, family, and
periodicals), and whether they were aware of the projects funded
by the EU. Demographic and other background information include
respondent's age, gender, nationality, origin of birth (personal and
parental), marital status, left-to-right political self-placement,
occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household
composition, and ownership of a fixed or a mobile telephone and other
durable goods. In addition, country-specific data include the type
and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview
(select countries).

This round of Eurobarometer surveys diverged from the
Standard Eurobarometer measures and queried respondents on the
following major areas of focus: (1) social reality, (2)
e-communications, (3) Common Agricultural Policy, (4) discrimination
and the media, and (5) medical research. For the first area of focus,
a sequence of questions covered a broad spectrum in terms of social
reality, asking the respondents to evaluate their life and job
satisfaction, work environment, confidence in their job skills,
ability to keep or find a job, and what they expected would happen to
their jobs in the near future, e.g., promotion, job loss, relocation,
and pensions. Respondents were then asked their opinions on the
effectiveness of social welfare, which social issues they considered
most important, whether they had or wanted children, how the presence
of minority groups affect their countries in a cultural and economic
sense, and what necessities are required in order to get ahead in
life. The second major focus called for respondents to provide
information on the availability, or lack there of, of each of these
communication systems: television, fixed telephone, mobile phones, and
Internet in their household. Respondents were asked to share reasons
why they owned or did not own certain systems, including
telecommunication bundles, and to explain how accessible the systems
were to their household. Respondents also were asked to assess the
performance of each system, to share their expectations as consumers,
and to rate the effectiveness of their service providers and the
available features (e.g., personal data protection, costs, tariffs,
and flexibility with account changes). Respondents indicated, from
lists of service providers included in the survey, the specific
provider they used for each communication system they used.
Respondents answered additional questions about viruses and spam,
and how they dealt with such issues, as well as their knowledge of the
phone numbers to contact in case of emergencies. Only one question was
asked in the next topic as respondents were shown a European label and
asked what it symbolized. For the third major area of focus, the survey
asked respondents about their knowledge of and their interest in
learning about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Respondents also
were asked their opinions on the importance of agriculture and rural
development in their countries, what the European Union's (EU) main
priorities should be in terms of CAP, and the effectiveness of its
role in policy development. Respondents were further asked if the EU's
reduction of the subsidy for farmers was justified if farmers failed
to attend to their responsibilities and rules of policy, and whether
the current amount of budgeting for agriculture was adequate. The fourth
major topic focused on people's opinions about discrimination and the
media. Respondents were requested to assess the importance of the
media's role in combating discrimination and the particular actions
the media may use to do this. The survey further asked respondents how
they felt about viewing people of different ethnic origins on
television, and the media's use of ethnic origin or religious
affiliation when discussing people. Also, respondents shared whether
they believed the media contributed to the creation of ethnic tensions
between different communities. For the fifth and final topic, the survey queried
respondents about their knowledge of and interest in scientific
research, their access to information on science and subjects of
interest (e.g., exhibitions, lectures, professors, doctors, family, and
periodicals), and whether they were aware of the projects funded
by the EU. Demographic and other background information include
respondent's age, gender, nationality, origin of birth (personal and
parental), marital status, left-to-right political self-placement,
occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household
composition, and ownership of a fixed or a mobile telephone and other
durable goods. In addition, country-specific data include the type
and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview
(select countries).

Universe:
Citizens of the European Union (EU) aged 15 and over residing in the 27 EU
member countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, and the United Kingdom, plus the citizens in the two EU
candidate countries: Croatia and Turkey, and the citizens in the
Turkish Cypriot Community

Data Type(s):
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The original data collection was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social on request of the European Commission.

The codebook and the
setup files for this collection contain characters with diacritical
marks used in many European languages.

The codebook and/or setup files may contain references to Norway, but Norway was not a participant in this wave of Eurobarometer surveys. This collection contains no data for Norway.

The dates in the data file
for Portugal and Slovakia are not consistent with the dates in the
"Technical Specifications" section of the ICPSR codebook.

The total number of interviews is
29,260. The table in the "Technical Specifications" section of the ICPSR codebook shows
the total number of interviews as 27,255.

The total "Population 15+" is listed as 444,406,021 in the French version of the "Technical Specifications", whereas the English version shows the total "Population 15+" as 393,099,391.

Methodology

Sample:
Multistage national probability samples.

Weight:
Please review the "Weighting Information" section of the
ICPSR codebook for this Eurobarometer study.

Mode of Data Collection:
face-to-face interview

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 2008-03-11

Version History:

2010-06-16 Data for all previously-embargoed variables are now available. Also, the data have been further processed by GESIS, and the SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files, SPSS and Stata system files, SAS transport (CPORT) file, tab-delimited ASCII data file, and codebook have been updated.